Danny was sat at the kitchen table, bottle of whiskey in one hand. Glass in the other. The bottle was half empty. He was on the way to very drunk.

"Danny?"

"Alice, Hi. Come sit down" he beamed. Perking up as soon as he saw Alice enter the room

"can't sleep huh?"

"Something like that" "want a drink?"

Alice nodded and he poured her a drink

"how long you been living in Africa then?"

"about 8 years now, moved over here when Charlie was very young"

"about the same amount of time as me then" Danny replied

Neither of them knew what to say. The atmosphere seemed very awkward between them. They remained silent for quite some time.

"what happened danny? Why did you do it to me?"

"break your heart you mean?" "It was hard for me Alice... I had to get away"

"away? away from what?" She questioned

"My mother died, it was cancer. I couldn't stay around any longer; it was all eating away at me. I needed to start again"

"I'm so sorry danny. Why didn't you tell me though?" she asked, sympathetically, placing her hand on his shoulder.

"I don't know Alice... I don't know. It was difficult for me" he told her

"and it wasn't difficult for me? You have no idea what I went through when you left..." "I didn't know what had happened to you... you just took off like that. You could have been dead for all I knew"

"I am truly sorry, I really am"

"we were so happy together though? ..well, at least that's what I thought.."

"you meant the world to me Alice, the absolute world. You still do. I never ever stopped loving you"

He turned to face her. Cupping her face in his hands.

"from the first time I saw you. The very first time, I fell in love with you and i've never stopped loving you since"

He leans in to kiss her, but she pulls away.

"Danny... don't"

He poured them both some more whiskey. The atmosphere went quiet once again as they tried to forget about the situation.

"i've regretted that day ever since.. it was the worst mistake I ever made.. and if you hadn't turned up here now... I don't know how I would have lived with it any longer.."

"If you loved me as much as you say you did you would have understood that I would have been there for you no matter what"

"I know Alice... I was so stupid. I gave up on the most important thing in my life... you"

"Well you can't really change what you did now I guess"

"that's what hurts the most" he murmured. Turning away slightly

"How's Rosie then?" Alice piped up, trying to change the conversation as quickly as possible.

"Rosie's fine... married now"

"gosh.. she's what, about 21 now?"

"yeah.. 22 this year" Danny Answered

"wow, only seems like yesterday she was Charlie's age"

"they grow up fast" He added. "Charlottes dad, he over here too then?" Danny asked. Wanting to find out everything he could about this man.

"I don't want to talk about it" Alice told him

"are you married to him?"

"I said I don't want to talk about it!" she barked.

Danny's P.O.V

The thought of Alice with any other man makes me feel sick to my stomach. I tried to bring the subject up but she didn't want to talk about it at all, she seemed very cold about it. It was strange, I didn't know anything about this man, who he was, what he looked like, his name, yet I still hated him with every bone in my body.

I turned to face her. I get hypnotized by those eyes every time I look at her. Damn, does she not realise what she is doing to me?

[X]

Alice's P.O.V

My eyes were just flickering open as I was waking up, I looked around the room. Strange, I could of sworn It hadn't looked like this last night. Infact, the walls were a completely different colour... the furniture was positioned in different places. Everything was just completely the wrong way round. I turned over expecting to see my beautiful little girl. NO. what had I done? Lay beside me was Danny. Danny Trevanion. SHIT.

I nudged his side, trying to wake him up.

"Danny" I said "wake up!"

His eyes began to open slightly "Alice?" he replied. "What are you doing here?" looking at me just as confused about the matter as I was.

"I was going to ask you the same question?"

"this is my room?" he added, rubbing his eyes.

I was beginning to panic now "shit, we didn't did we?"

We both stripped back the covers.

"Oh god no! This is not happening to me!" I screeched

"I'm not that repulsive am I?" he joked

This wasn't a laughing matter. There was no way I was taking him back after what he did to me. If he thinks that getting me into bed will work he's got another thing coming. I was not having my heart broken again.

I jumped out of bed, throwing on my khaki's and vest top which were scattered around Danny's bedroom floor. He too got out of bed and put on the nearest clothes he could find.

"What time is it" Danny asked me

"10 o'clock" I replied, glancing at my watch. Wait, 10 O'CLOCK! We're 3 hours late Danny. We need to get on the job"

"I think we need to sit down and talk about last night first"

"there is nothing to say about last night. I'm here to do my job and then I'm leaving"

I stormed out of his room, forgetting that everyone would be up and about.

I ran straight into dupe. Uh oh. BUSTED.

He completely ignored what he had just seen and simply smiled at me, looking very pleased about the situation, which was slightly odd. As we entered the kitchen I could hear him mumbling under his breath. "Trevanion you crafty old devil"

"Mum where were you this morning?" Charlotte asked me, as i went to pour myself a coffee.

"Oh I had to start working early, sorry honey"

"Oh so that's what they're calling it nowadays" Dupe joked. Everybody in the room just simply looked at him and ignored his random input to the conversation, not having a clue what he was on about. I gave him a look, the kind of look that says 'KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT'

Danny came out of his room and into the kitchen to join the rest of us

"Late up Trevanion?" Dupe asked him, with a cheeky grin spread across his face

Dupe kept his eyes glued on us both, raising an eyebrow every now and then

"Erm yeah... my, erm, alarm didn't go off" Danny replied. Rubbing his forehead, still trying to take in what had just happened.

"and while poor Alice was up working so early! You should be looking after your guests Danny" Georgina remarked.

"yeah err, sorry about that Alice" Danny mumbled. Still half asleep.

"Right come on then we've got a job to do" I said, grabbing some toast on my way out.

I went to kiss Charlotte. "See you later sweetie"

"Bye mum" she replied cheerfully

Sorry it's mainly all Danny & Alice speaking, but there was bits that really needed to be added in for the rest of the story